We have posted our 2010 Festival Schedule under our calendar link! Go check it out!
5/20/09
Thank you to everyone who purchased our Celtic Breast Cancer
Awareness t-shirt. Because of its sucess we were able to send in
our donation of 25% of the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
From the bottom of our hearts we are so grateful!
MacKinnon’s Kilt Lasses
4/1/09
Pasadena Stars News published this picture
of MacKinnon's in their June 30, 2008 Edition.
Check it out!
It reads:
Star-News on vacation
Chilling with the Star-News at the Abbey Pub in Edinburgh, Scotland,
are members of Sierra Madre's MacKinnon Kilts- Karen and
Kyleena Harper and Scott Storlie
MacKinnon's own Scott Storlie is holding up a Pasadena
Star News Paper with Pasadena High Schoolers in
kilts on the front:
4/1/09
Daily Titan: St. Patrick’s Day Festivities Start at Irish Fair
St. Patrick’s Day festivities start at Irish Fair
St. Patrick’s Day starts early in Pomona with the L.A.County Irish Fair
By: Melissa Pollard
Issue date: 3/17/08
St. Patrick’s Day is here and the party has already begun.
The sixth annual Los Angeles County Irish Fair and Music Festival was held
last Saturday and Sunday at the Pomona Fairplex.
The Fairplex was decorated from top to bottom with clovers, shamrocks and the color green.
Green water flowed from the ground’s water fountains. Men, women and children were dressed in green and kilts. MacKinnon’s Kilts, a traveling kilt vendor, was located in the center of the festival and had lines of people waiting to buy kilts. The kilts cost $150 and came in sizes from toddlers to adults.
Breanna Wilson, 21, a student at Citrus College studying Forestry, travels with Mackinnon’s to different festivals every weekend selling kilts.
"This is my first year at the L.ACounty Irish Fair, and I am having a great time. The crowd seems to be having a lot of fun," Wilson said. The kilt sellers’ motto is, "Drop Yer Drawers."
A bell rang every time someone who came to the festival wearing shorts or pants walked away wearing a kilt. The festival and music fair offered a variety of entertainment.
There were eight stages placed throughout the venue that offered Irish cultural music from bands such as Gaelic Storm, the Mulligans and many others. The festival also offered other traditional cultural aspects.
The 42nd Highlanders Regimental Pipes and Drums performed on the Irish Bazaar Stage late Saturday afternoon.
Composed of 11 pipers and drummers, the band silenced the audience at the indoor stage when its pipers flawlessly performed "Amazing Grace." They performed six times at the festival.
The festival also offered an array of different dancers.
The Royal Scottish Dancers had the crowds clapping and stomping their feet to the beat of the music. It is believed that this Scottish country dancing is a forerunner of American square-dancing, according to http://www.dancin-fool.com, a Web site about ethnic dancing in the Los Angeles area.
Eva Anderson, 78, who attended the festival with her children and grandchildren, loved the performance.
"Their precision is just something else. How they came remember all the techniques while switching partners, and still end with their original partners, is amazing," Anderson said.
Following the Royal Scottish Dancers on the Failte Stage were the Cripple Creek Cloggers.
The cloggers included both children and senior citizens. Megan Rogers, 16, part of the National Championship team Extreme Dance FX, was a standout performer for the Cripple Creek Cloggers.
"I kind of got tricked into clogging," Rogers said. "I wanted to take a hip-hop class and clogging was cheaper and on the same night. I fell in love with it right away and love performing."
Rogers has been clogging for over five years.
Adult admission for the festival was $18.
Children age 11 and younger were admitted free. Student admission with a valid college ID was $14.
The Irish Fair and Music Festival will be back again next year at the Pomona Fairplex on March 7 and 8.
For more information on the event or the performers check out www.la-irishfair.com.
